21MANASSEH <OBJ.> EPHRAIM AND EPHRAIM <OBJ.> MANASSEH TOGETHER THEY ON JUDAH FOR ALL THIS NOT IT HAS TURNED BACK ANGER HIS AND STILL HAND HIS [IS] STRETCHED OUT 21Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
1WOE TO! THOSE [WHO] DECREE DECREES OF WICKEDNESS AND WRITERS [WHO] TROUBLE THEY WROTE Woe to Tyrants 1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
2TO TURN ASIDE FROM JUDGMENT POOR [PEOPLE] AND TO TAKE AWAY [THE] JUSTICE OF [THE] POOR [PEOPLE] OF PEOPLE MY TO BE WIDOWS PREY THEIR AND <OBJ.> FATHERLESS ONES THEY WILL PLUNDER 2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
3AND WHAT? WILL YOU DO TO [THE] DAY OF PUNISHMENT AND TO [THE] DEVASTATION [WHICH] FROM A DISTANCE IT WILL COME TO WHOM? WILL YOU FLEE FOR HELP AND WHERE? WILL YOU LEAVE ABUNDANCE YOUR 3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4EXCEPT ANYONE KNEELED DOWN UNDER PRISONER[S] AND UNDER [THE] SLAIN [PEOPLE] THEY WILL FALL FOR ALL THIS NOT IT HAS TURNED BACK ANGER HIS AND STILL HAND HIS [IS] STRETCHED OUT 4Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
5WOE TO! ASSYRIA [THE] ROD OF ANGER MY AND [IS] A STAFF IT IN HAND THEIR INDIGNATION MY Judgment on Assyria 5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6ON A NATION GODLESS I SENT HIM AND ON [THE] PEOPLE OF WRATH MY I COMMANDED HIM TO PLUNDER PLUNDER AND TO TAKE AS SPOIL SPOIL AND TO MAKE IT A TRAMPLING PLACE LIKE [THE] MUD OF [THE] STREETS 6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7AND HE NOT THUS HE INTENDED AND HEART HIS NOT THUS IT PLANNED FOR TO DESTROY [IS] IN HEART HIS AND TO CUT OFF NATIONS NOT A FEW 7But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
9¿ NOT LIKE CARCHEMISH [IS] CALNEH OR? NOT LIKE ARPAD [IS] HAMATH OR? NOT LIKE DAMASCUS [IS] SAMARIA 9“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10JUST AS IT HAS FOUND HAND MY <TO> [THE] KINGDOMS OF THE IDOL AND IMAGES THEIR [WERE] MORE THAN JERUSALEM AND MORE THAN SAMARIA 10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11¿ NOT JUST AS I DID TO SAMARIA AND TO IDOLS ITS SO WILL I DO TO JERUSALEM AND TO IMAGES ITS 11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
12AND IT WILL BE THAT HE WILL FINISH [THE] LORD <OBJ.> ALL WORK HIS ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF ZION AND IN JERUSALEM I WILL VISIT [JUDGMENT] ON [THE] FRUIT OF [THE] GREATNESS OF [THE] HEART OF [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA AND ON [THE] GLORY OF [THE] HAUGHTINESS OF EYES HIS 12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
13FOR HE HAS SAID BY [THE] STRENGTH OF HAND MY I HAVE ACTED AND BY SKILL MY FOR I HAVE UNDERSTANDING AND I MAY REMOVE [THE] BOUNDARIES OF PEOPLES AND PROVISIONS THEIR I HAVE PLUNDERED AND I MAY BRING DOWN LIKE A MIGHTY [MAN] INHABITANTS 13For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
14AND IT HAS FOUND LIKE <THE> NEST HAND MY <TO> [THE] WEALTH OF THE PEOPLES AND AS GATHERS EGGS ABANDONED ALL THE EARTH I I HAVE GATHERED AND NOT ANY WAS FLUTTERING A WING AND OPENING A MOUTH AND CHIRPING 14My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
15¿ DOES IT GLORIFY ITSELF THE AXE ABOVE THE [ONE WHO] CUTS WITH IT OR? DOES IT MAGNIFY ITSELF THE SAW ABOVE [THE] [ONE WHO] WIELDS IT AS WIELDS A ROD <AND> <OBJ.> [THOSE WHO] LIFT IT AS LIFTS A STAFF NOT WOOD 15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
16<TO> THEREFORE HE WILL SEND THE LORD YAHWEH OF HOSTS ON FAT ONES HIS LEANNESS AND UNDER GLORY HIS IT WILL BURN A BURNING LIKE [THE] BURNING OF FIRE 16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
17AND IT WILL BECOME [THE] LIGHT OF ISRAEL <INTO> A FIRE AND HOLY [ONE] ITS <INTO> A FLAME AND IT WILL BURN AND IT WILL CONSUME BUSH[ES] HIS AND THORN[S] HIS IN A DAY ONE 17And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
18AND [THE] SPLENDOR OF FOREST HIS AND ORCHARD HIS FROM BREATH AND UNTO FLESH IT WILL BRING TO AN END AND IT WILL BE AS WASTES AWAY [ONE WHO] IS SICK 18The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
19AND [THE] REMNANT OF [THE] TREE[S] OF FOREST HIS A NUMBER THEY WILL BE AND A CHILD HE WILL RECORD THEM 19The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
20AND IT WILL BE IN THE DAY <THE> THAT NOT IT WILL REPEAT AGAIN [THE] REMNANT OF ISRAEL AND [THE] ESCAPED REMNANT OF [THE] HOUSE OF JACOB TO DEPEND ON [THE] [ONE WHO] STRUCK IT AND IT WILL DEPEND ON YAHWEH [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL IN TRUTH A Remnant Shall Return 20On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
21A REMNANT IT WILL RETURN [THE] REMNANT OF JACOB TO [THE] GOD MIGHTY 21A remnant will return*NoteCloseHebrew Shear-jashub; also in verse 22; see Isaiah 7:3. — a remnant of Jacob— to the Mighty God.
22THAT THOUGH IT WILL BE PEOPLE YOUR ISRAEL LIKE [THE] SAND OF THE SEA A REMNANT IT WILL RETURN IN IT ANNIHILATION [HAS BEEN] DECIDED [IS] ABOUT TO OVERFLOW RIGHTEOUSNESS 22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
23FOR COMPLETE DESTRUCTION AND [WHAT] HAS BEEN DECIDED [THE] LORD YAHWEH OF HOSTS [IS] ABOUT TO DO IN [THE] MIDST OF ALL THE LAND 23For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.*NoteCloseLXX He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work in all the world. Cited in Romans 9:28
24<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH OF HOSTS MAY NOT YOU BE AFRAID O PEOPLE MY [WHICH] DWELLS ZION FROM ASSYRIA WITH THE ROD IT WILL STRIKE YOU AND STAFF ITS IT WILL LIFT UP ON YOU IN [THE] MANNER OF EGYPT 24Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.
25FOR YET A LITTLE OF A LITTLE AND IT WILL BE FINISHED INDIGNATION AND ANGER MY [WILL BE] ON DESTRUCTION THEIR 25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
26AND HE WILL WIELD ON IT YAHWEH OF HOSTS A WHIP LIKE [THE] DEFEAT OF MIDIAN AT [THE] ROCK OF OREB AND STAFF HIS [WILL BE] OVER THE SEA AND HE WILL RAISE IT IN [THE] MANNER OF EGYPT 26And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
27AND IT WILL BE IN THE DAY <THE> THAT IT WILL BE REMOVED BURDEN ITS FROM ON SHOULDER YOUR AND YOKE ITS FROM ON NECK YOUR AND IT WILL BE BROKEN [THE] YOKE <FROM> BECAUSE OF FATNESS 27On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.*NoteCloseLiterally broken because of fatness; LXX broken from your shoulders
28HE HAS COME TO AIATH HE HAS PASSED IN MIGRON TO MICMASH HE DEPOSITS BAGGAGE<S> HIS 28Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
29THEY HAVE PASSED OVER [THE] PASS GEBA [WILL BE] A LODGING PLACE FOR US IT HAS TREMBLED <THE> RAMAH GIBEAH OF SAUL IT HAS FLED 29They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
30CRY ALOUD VOICE YOUR O DAUGHTER OF GALLIM PAY ATTENTION O LAISHAH O AFFLICTED [ONE] ANATHOTH 30Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
31IT HAS FLED MADMENAH [THE] INHABITANTS OF <THE> GEBIM THEY HAVE TAKEN REFUGE 31Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.
32YET THIS DAY AT NOB TO STAND HE WILL SHAKE HAND HIS [THE] MOUNTAIN OF [THE] DAUGHTER OF ZION [THE] HILL OF JERUSALEM 32Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
33THERE! THE LORD YAHWEH OF HOSTS [IS] ABOUT TO LOP OFF BOUGH[S] WITH A CRASH AND [THE] EXALTED [ONES] OF <THE> HEIGHT [WILL BE] CUT DOWN AND THE TALL [ONES] THEY WILL BECOME LOW 33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
34AND HE WILL CUT DOWN [THE] THICKETS OF THE FOREST WITH <THE> IRON [AXE] AND THE LEBANON BY A MIGHTY [ONE] IT WILL FALL 34He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.